Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony Attwood You possibly didn’t know that there was a match on tonight – not unless you are a close follower of Scottish football. But yes, the extra, pre-qualifying, qualifying round of the pre-qualifying extra round tournament before the Europa League is already underway. In fact tonight was the second leg. And one result …
Read More “Before we start warming up for the warm ups there is a total absolute cock up”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Sorry about the formatting on the original publication of this post. It looked all right at first and then went very odd. I have removed the offending text now. OK the story is that he is at the training centre and having a medical. So what do we know of …
Read More “Alexandre Lacazette: all you need to know and some things you probably don’t”
by Tony Attwood There was an editorial in the German magazine Der Spiegel a few months back about the leaders of Turkey and the United States, which says, roughly, “Erdogan and Trump are positioning themselves as the only ones capable of truly understanding the people and speaking for them. It’s their view that freedom of …
Read More “Why the way football is reported is both insulting and incredibly dangerous”
By Tony Attwood I have to admit it: I am a sucker for quizzes. Science quizzes, general knowledge quizzes, political quizzes, history quizzes, and of course Arsenal quizzes. Which is why finding out that there was a second volume of Graham Lister’s “Never mind the Gunners: The Ultimate Arsenal Quiz Book” caused me to smile, …
Read More “The Arsenal quiz books that will fry your brain, blow your mind and give a lot of fun.”
With today’s guest publication: The Carrick Fergus Times By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the wonderful things we discovered last year in running this series on summer transfers was that an English paper (say the Daily Express) would quote the source of a story as being a Spanish newspaper. Then if one went looking for …
